COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONOude Kriek 3 Fonteinen is produced by ripening of cherries (both the flesh and the seeds) in young Lambic. This process takes between 6 to 8 months. After bottling the beer matures for at least 4 months in a warm room where the spontaneous fermentation in the bottle is done.
The head of Oude Kriek is very sensitive to the concentration of the cherry seeds containing oil and may differ from one year to the other.
On old Cherry 3 Fonteinen, no flavorings, sweeteners, or dyes added which makes this beer very natural and is especially thirst quenching.

Note: Recent labels may show the beer to contain 35% of Schaerbeekse Krieken.

It pours hazy violet with ruby highlights; the head is magenta and foamy. The aroma has notes of: red cherries, cough medicine, and lemon juice. The taste is heavy sour; there are notes of: lemon juice, funk, and lemon juice. The palate is full bodied and has medium carbonation, with a light astringency, and it has a medium finish. Overall, straight from the grim reaper ’ s cherry tree.

375ml bottle. Pours a deep ruby red color with a thin white head. Aroma is a burst of cherries, some light oak, a little lemony, some light funk. Medium on the palate with average carbonation. Flavor is tart, sour cherry, lemon acidity, oak, some light funk, with a nice sour finish. Excellent.

375 ml bottle, 1 year old. Pours a ruby red body with a medium to small pinkish head. Aroma has soft notes of cherry and some old dusty hay. Pleasantly tingly/tart mouthfeel. Taste has some unsweet cherries but what I get more is a flavour resembling cranberries! If somebody said it also contained cranberries I would believe them. Medium to low sweetness. Above medium tartness, grows drier in the finish. Refreshing and highly drinkable, but the complexity does not quite reach the levels of "3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze".

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